Travel magazine
Six running series and hundreds of articles, written by the people who plan the trips.
When to go
Seasons, month by month, region by region
What it costs
Real budgets in dollars, with tables
Routes that work
Tested itineraries and combinations
Eating across Asia
What to order and where
On foot
Treks and long walks, described honestly
Before you book
Visas, permits, timing, practicalities
What we would skip in China
Every China itinerary is a subtraction problem. The country is too big and too full for two weeks, so the useful work…
What we would skip in Cambodia, and what we book instead
This article costs us bookings and we publish it anyway, because the alternative is selling you a day you will resent.
What we would skip in Bhutan
Every country has a version of this article and Bhutan's is unusually important, because in Bhutan a wasted day costs more than…
What we would skip in Azerbaijan
This is the article that costs us money and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
What we would skip in Australia
Australia is enormous and almost everything in it is good, which is what makes the editing hard. A two-week itinerary holds about…
What we would skip in Armenia
This is the article that costs us money and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
What to eat in the Maldives, and where you will actually find it
Maldivian cooking is built on three ingredients and almost nothing else: tuna, coconut and rice. Add chilli, lime, onion and curry leaves…
What to eat in Thailand, and where
The first thing to understand about what to eat in Thailand is that Thai food is not one cuisine. It is at…
What to eat in Sri Lanka, and where
Sri Lankan food is the most underrated cooking in South Asia, and the reason most visitors miss it is simple: they eat…
What to eat and drink in New Zealand, and where
New Zealand does not have a large restaurant culture and it does have extraordinary raw material. That is the whole shape of…
What to eat in Myanmar, and where
Burmese food is the least known of the major Southeast Asian cuisines and it is nothing like the one next door. If…
What to eat in Mongolia, honestly
Mongolia is the one country in our library where we tell people to bring snacks, and we would rather explain why than…
What to eat in Laos, and where to eat it
Lao food is the least known cuisine in mainland Southeast Asia and it is not a milder version of Thai food. It…
What to eat in Kyrgyzstan, and where
Kyrgyz food gets a bad write-up, and if you only ate the national dishes for ten days you would understand why. This…
What to eat in Kazakhstan, and where
Kazakh food is nomadic food, which means it begins with the two things a herding people can carry and keep: meat and…
What to eat in Georgia, and how a supra works
Georgian food is one of the two reasons to come to Georgia, and the other one is the wine that goes with…
What to eat in Dubai, and where
Dubai has the widest range of food of any city its size anywhere, and almost nobody visiting eats well, because the good…
What to eat in China, region by region
There is no such thing as Chinese food. There are at least eight major regional cuisines, they disagree with each other about…
What to eat in Bhutan, and how to escape the buffet
Bhutanese food has a reputation problem, and the reputation is largely the fault of hotels rather than of the food.
What to eat in Azerbaijan, and how the tea works
Azerbaijani cooking sits between Turkish, Persian and Central Asian food and takes something from all three, which makes it familiar in outline…
What to eat and drink in Australia, and where
Australian food has no single dish you must try and that is the point of it. What Australia has instead is a…
What to eat in Armenia, and the Areni revival
Armenian food sits between the Caucasus and the Middle East and belongs fully to neither. There is grilled meat and there is…
Walking in northern Vietnam: Pu Luong, the Muong Hoa valley and Ha Giang
Trekking in northern Vietnam is a phrase that oversells what the walking actually is, and undersells how good it is. There are…
Walking in Armenia: Dilijan, Aragats and the southern trails
Armenia is not a trekking destination in the way Nepal or Kyrgyzstan are, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.…
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